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  1. Sport
    That's hilarious. I thought Martin Brodeur playing as a St Louis Blue alumni was bad. I always hated how they chose to align the F logo on those hats. The whole logo looks like it's pushed way to the left and it's because they centered it by finding the middle point of the logo, but the visual weight of the logo all lies with the F. They should've centered the F and let the fish hang off to the right.
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    I watched some of one game between Canada and Sweden in this year's Spengler Cup. It was on a low channel that I can't even name but I know they also show the Chinese arena football league and cricket matches. The Canadian guys looked sad and old and it made me feel sad. Unless countries revive national team programs who spend years playing with only that team the hockey will be bad regardless of who goes so at the very least I'd like to see it played by the world's best. I'm only tuning into the Biathlon once every four years I want to watch the best people in the world at cross country skiing AND shooting air rifles. I'd hate to see the second tier because the best biathletes weren't allowed to go because the national biathlon league wouldn't let them out of their contracts.
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    I also like NHL players in the Olympics. Am I a bad hockey fan? Without NHL players it's the Spengler Cup. It is pretty much the only time non-hockey fans watch hockey. It makes sense then to showcase the world's best players. I get "well we never sent them until 98 and it wasn't a big deal then" and maybe it's because I'm not old enough to remember Lillihammer all that well, but back then nobody had seen best on best in the Olympics before and everyone was used to the NHL players not going, but now that we've seen it 5 times how do you put that toothpaste back in the tube? It's a different environment now than it was in Lillihammer or St Albert or Calgary etc. The other thing that sucks is Team USA was about to have the best roster we've had since they let NHLers play in the games. I don't want to see the AHL's best play the Swedish elite league's best play the KHL's best so I think they should make it a U20 tournament and we'll replay the World Juniors which were very exciting this year. Also if we're not sending NHLers to the Olympics then we have to have the World Cup more often than once every 12 years and we can't have a North America U23 team that poached a lot of USA's best players.
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    They're also 20-1-2 in games after at least two days off. Look for that in game 1's of a playoff series.
  5. Sport
    Brandon Phillips played one season in the black heavy vest uniforms and then 10 in the current uniforms.
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    I hated those Bruins uniforms. Even Ray Bourque never looked quite right in them. I think there was too much yellow on the black sweaters. They didn't feel right for an O6 team.
  7. Sport
    Edgar Martinez reminded me of this
  8. Sport
    Eric Davis in the team's current uniform
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    He was one of the few players I liked during the dark days.
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    Can't wait to hear your rationale. Notable things he did with the Reds: - Made his major league debut - five seasons - 383 career appearances, 324 with the Reds - set the world speed record for a fastball - four all-star games
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    PK Subban was on Bill Simmons' podcast. He's so impressive. It's worth a listen. PK Subban has to be one of the smartest professional athletes. He really gets it and has great perspective on sports, hockey's place in sports, his place in hockey, what hockey needs to do to improve, concussions, and just seems like a chill dude. He was so candid and open. It's too bad Simmons didn't have him on longer than he did. His interview was hidden on the back end of another podcast where he talks to one of goofball buddies about nonsense for longer than he talked to PK Subban.
  12. Sport
    This was during his brief comeback with the Reds in 2001 also the same time when they inexplicably wore red hats with black sleeves. Looked awful. Amazing he was such an athlete that he could dabble in Major League Baseball.
  13. Sport
    I liked those Grizzlies colors, but the side panels always bothered me. This side was fine. The striping from the jerseys continues on the shorts. Makes sense. But this side What's going on here? Should've either not had a side panel on that side of the jersey, asymmetry isn't uncommon in the NBA, or have a matching stripe on that side of the shorts.
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    You'd think, but it was peewee for forever and then USA Hockey changed hitting age to Bantam. I have to assume they did studies and determined that was better. I remember peewees being a hitting free-for-all at a time when a lot of kids were still learning the game. My skill set definitely wasn't ready for that part of the sport and I got rocked a few times because of it. Shifting hitting age to 13 instead of 11 (or whatever it is) allow more time for the youths to develop skills first then they can avoid hits or learn how to stay out of vulnerable situations before they're asked to play the body rather than the other way around.
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    Do NBA players change teams more frequently than the other leagues? It feels that way.
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    He has 9 shots in 41 games. I hate when people say this, but I think I could do better than that. I was amazed another team took him on after the Blue Jackets bought him out.
  17. Sport
    Islanders arena stuff: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/rangers-owner-investing-in-new-islanders-arena-at-belmont-park-192235394.html Belmont Park, Queens location.
  18. Sport
    I mean, they made a 30 for 30 about it so it wasn't insignificant. Nobody's putting his time with Orlando on par with what he did in LA, but the uniform he became a star in is not his "wrong" uniform.
  19. Sport
    Vintage Cujo. I'd say this looks more right than Miami even.
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    But they are "wrong" uniforms because we're not used to them yet and we can only go off of how we feel right now. Brandon Phillips in a Braves uniform is his wrong uniform. Maybe he has a huge comeback and the Braves unexpectedly win the World Series while he wears that uniform. At that point it won't be a wrong uniform, but RIGHT NOW as of this post it doesn't look right.
  21. Sport
    I sat here trying to figure out why this didn't look right to me. Beauchemin is the Maple Leaf in this picture FYI. #71 is Chris Clark. One of the guys we gave up to get Fedorov. Fall in a hole, Doug Maclean!
  22. Sport
    yeah this was good. What keeps coming back to me about this era of NBA players is how much smarter they are about the media, their role as public figures, the political landscape, the business side of the game, etc etc than the guys 10-15 years ago.
  23. Sport
    Nathan Horton. Long time Panther, Stanley Cup winner with Boston, 36 games with the Blue Jackets. Back issues forced him to long term IR. Contract traded to Toronto because the Blue Jackets never insured him and Toronto was willing to take on the contract to rid themselves of.... David Clarkson. longtime Devil, famously bad contract with Toronto, 26 total games with the Blue Jackets. Back issues have also forced him to LTIR. He'll likely never play again.
  24. Sport
    Come to think of it, is there a geographic NBA rivalry that's really nasty? Do the Nets and Knicks, Lakers and Clippers get up for the city championship? Do the Magic and Heat, Texas teams fans get at each other for "best in the state"? That stuff seems way more important in other sports. Like Ducks fans and Kings fans really hate each other, but I don't get the same feeling from the lakers and clippers fanbases. Maybe I'm just not plugged in, but seems to me any rivalry in the NBA is relatively short lived and comes from playoffs and finals matchups. The best one right now is Cavs-Warriors, but there's Lakers-Celtics of course and in the 90's there was heat-knicks and Bulls-Pistons and Knicks-Pacers, but then players move on and they die down.
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    I asked about this and nobody really seemed to care all that much about the Blazers either way. It seems like Portland-Seattle would've been a fierce NBA rivalry, but I didn't really get that impression. The Grizzlies couldn't have been around long enough to engender any kind of relationship with the other two other than "thanks for the free win".
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